Hey guys it's bella today we're going to be covering another mystery monday case we're going to be talking about mary belle she was an 11 year old serial killer mary florebell was born on the 26th of may in 1957 in newcastle england
Her mother Betty Bell was a s*x worker and she was only 17 years old when Mary was born and the first thing she said when Mary was born was take the thing away from me it's unknown who Mary's biological father actually is but just under a year after she was born her mother betty married a guy named billy bell and he served as a father figure to mary
he was actually an armed rubber a career criminal and an alcoholic so safe to say mary didn't have the best upbringing and this is actually a really interesting case of nature versus nurture because you have to wonder how much responsibility her upbringing had in her committing the crimes that she did and if she would have committed them at all if she had a completely different upbringing because she had it rough growing up
So Mary Billy and Betty lived in a house that was constantly filthy at a 70 white house road in Scottswood at the time and I'm not really sure what it's like now but back in the 1960s it was quite a poor area with a high rate of violent crimes and criminal behavior and white house road was a street that had a high unemployment rate it had a constant police presence because of the amount of s*x work drug activity and domestic abuse issues
despite all of the obvious dangers for young children Mary and all of the other kids on the street were just allowed to go out and play unsupervised from the ages of 2 and up and they would play until all hours of the night like they'd be out playing until midnight with no one there to supervise them betty as i mentioned was a s*x worker she specialized in sadomasochism whippings and stranglings and allegedly